Malfunctioning democracy in Japan
Subtitle: quantitative analysis in a civil society
By: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780739147498; 9780739147573; 9780739147580
Subjects: Politics and government; Elections; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Party platforms and government expenditures; title: Platforms and voting behavior; title: Electoral platform malfunction; title: Investigating the political rationality hypothesis; title: The voters' response : macro-analysis; title: The voters' response : micro-analysis; title: Issue voting; title: Retrospective voting; title: Issue voting and retrospective voting in the 2005 and 2009 elections; title: A plan for the resuscitation of democracy; title: Appendix : politicians' career points.